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feta; pasta with smoked steelhead, shallot, capers, cream
Categories: Meals at homeFriday night dinner. Barry found the recipe. I do the cooking, but he’s very, very good at ordering. I don’t mean ordering me, but ordering food in restaurants or at take out, where I, on the other hand, usually freeze up. It turns out he’s also good at spotting recipes. This was a really good…
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guanciale, shallot, squash, grenada pepper, sage carbonara
Categories: Meals at homeI had some very good winter squash on the window sill, with no plan to use it soon. I was expecting Thursday to be a pasta day. I looked on line for ideas on how to combine both interestingly. I quickly found three or four promising recipes. None of them seemed quite right however. I…
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creamy pasta, crispy mushrooms
Categories: Meals at homeI literally tripped over this Epicurious recipe recently while I was looking for something not even food related. I literally stopped in my tracks, because the picture accompanying it was very appetizing. Tuesday evening I happened to have some excellent mushrooms in the apartment – and some heavy cream, which is somewhat more untypical. Both…
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fried needlefish; marinated swordfish, heirloom tomatoes
Categories: Meals at homeIt’s not that I don’t appreciate the incredibly huge variety of local seafood available through the seasons from the fishers in New York’s Union Square Greenmarket four days of the week. It’s just that I’m an obsessive for anything new. Yesterday, long after I made it home with a ‘catch’ that I had never come…
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bacon and eggs and pretzel rolls
Categories: Meals at homeOn Saturday I learned that our very local (less than one block away) Chelsea Saturday greenmarket has several new local vendors, one of which, Breadivore, offers, among other delicacies, pretzel rolls, in a choice of plain, black pepper, or grainy mustard. Pretzel rolls! From a stall just down the street! And made in Long Island…
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aged steak; oven fries; agretti; super tuscan; Hanson
Categories: Meals at homeIt was the 4th of July. We were about to enter the fourth month of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown. It wasn’t a cookout (it wouldn’t have been a cookout even without the virus), but it was a great steak and there were some luscious oven fries, very very good steak and very very good oven fries.…
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swordfish au poivre, scapes; new potato, tarragon; cheese
Categories: Meals at homePiece of cake. I have been neglecting this blog for months, first because I just got distracted by other stuff, and because I didn’t want to spend as much time on it as it demands. Then it was because of the additional perturbations that arrived early in March, those related to the pandemic, whose distractions…
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penne, radish (3x), chili, green garlic, lemon, breadcrumbs
Categories: Meals at homeI love radishes. This bowl of pasta boasts 3 forms of radish. two tablespoons of homemade breadcrumbs (a stash that had been set aside separately because it they had come from some darker, pretty sturdy bread) added to a cast iron skillet in which a tablespoon of olive oil had been heated over a medium…
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epazote/garlic-stuffed scallops; tomato, red cress ‘salad’
Categories: Meals at homeThey were small, but they took grill marks like never before. eighteen smallish sea scallops (14 ounces total) from American Seafood Company, rinsed, dried, slit horizontally with a very sharp knife almost all of the way through to accommodate tiny spoonfuls of a mixture of some fresh chopped fresh epazote and a bit of spring…
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eggs and, ..watercress, no toast; the music of André Caplet
Categories: Meals at homeJoyeuses Pâques! It was easter morning, and our first music of the day was French. I would be serving a roast later, so I skipped the bacon part of our bacon and eggs, substituting some juicy lightly dressed red cress from Dave Harris’s Max Creek Hatchery. The eggs themselves, from Millport Dairy Farm, enjoyed a scattering of…